"We are sorry to inform you that we are no longer making AC->PS2 BEMANI CS games, as our main focus has been to broaden the arcade experience. We will also not release pop'music portable2 (PSP) outside of Japan. Consider pop'n music portable and pop'n music portable2 as ADVENTURE CS and PARTY CS respectively. Thanks.

-ケチケチコナミ社員"

Naoki made a tweet a few hours ago, confirming that he was the producer for Pop'n Portable 2, and explaining that there will be no more PS2 games, now that DDR and Pop'n CS games have found a home on the Wii and PSP, respectively.

"We are sorry to inform you that we are no longer making AC->PS2 BEMANI CS games, as our main focus has been to broaden the arcade experience. We will also not release pop'music portable2 (PSP) outside of Japan. Consider pop'n music portable and pop'n music portable2 as ADVENTURE CS and PARTY CS respectively. Thanks.

-ケチケチコナミ社員"

Naoki made a tweet a few hours ago, confirming that he was the producer for Pop'n Portable 2, and explaining that there will be no more PS2 games, now that DDR and Pop'n CS games have found a home on the Wii and PSP, respectively.

We sort of knew that already after all, "BEMANI is dead" at least for major home releases.

There are a lot of doubts from that supposed e-mail. For one, I have never heard Konami be so direct in answering questions. Usually, instead of something like "We will also not release pop'music portable2 (PSP) outside of Japan." you will get "There are currently no plans to release pop'n music portable 2 outside of Japan, but if there is enough support we may consider it."